Hosiery drying form



July 7, 1931- P. GUGGENHEIM 1,813,737

HOSIERY DRYING FORM Filed DeC. ll, 1928 CFI Patented July 7, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PAUL GUGGENHEIM, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PHILADEL- PHIA METAL DRYING FOR-M COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A

CORPGRAT'ION OF DELAWARE nosinnY DRYING Fonivr Application filed December 11, 1928. Serial No. 325,302.

My invention relates to hosiery drying forms, whether heated by electricity, steam, hot water, or other fluid.

The general object of the invention is to adapt a drying form and especially a form of the French type, to hosiery of different sizes.

It is known to provide a form having a removable or adjustable part which permits the form to be adapted to stockings of different sizes. This has been accomplished, in forms for drying stockings intended to be creased at front and back, by means of removable toe pieces, which are made to correspond to different sized stockings. It is also known to provide a form of the same type having a movable heel piece which may be slid along the form to adapt it to different sized stockings. It is also known to apply a slidable heel piece to forms of the French type.

My invention embodies the known principle of a slidable heel piece. It exhibits, however, certain pronounced advantages over the prior art. The slidable heel piece is not only adapted to be positively held in any position to which itis adjusted, but such definite positioning may be effected without the necessity of adjusting any fastening device, thereby effecting a material saving of time and labor. Moreover, the adjustment and positive positioning of the heel piece may be effected while the stocking is on the form, which is a capacity of great practical value.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a rear view of a hosiery drying form, of the French type, embodying my in vention.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the adjustable heel piece applied to the form, a part of the latter being shown in section.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the adjustable heel piece, looking toward the inner face thereof.

The body of the drying form may be of any known type and may be heated by electricity, steam or hot water. The form a shown is a hollow fiat form of the French type, adaptedA to receive steam or hot water, and is provided with bevelled edges. The stocking to be dried is adapted to be slipped over the upper end or toe portion of the form.

The rear face of the form is provided with a longitudinally extending ridge or projecting guide bythe longitudinal side walls of which are undercut, as shown in Fig. 3.

The heel piece c is provided with a groove Z corresponding in contour with the ridge Z). Thereby the heel piece may be slipped onto the end of the ridge and moved into any desired position.

In the face of the ridge are formed a series of recesses or depressions e. In the base of the groove d is formed a hole or recess in which is seated a locking member comprising, in the embodiment shown, a ball g actuated by a spring It.

The heel piece c is adapted to be slid by the operator along the ridge b until the ball g is opposite a depression e. Immediately the spring it forces the ball g into depression c and thereby holds the ball in this position. By the exercise of a certain moderate degree of manual power, exerted in the direction of sliding movement of the heel piece,`the latter may be moved out of engagement with one depression e and into engagement with any other depression e and will be held in the adjusted position until, by manual power, it 1s again released and readjusted. It is found, in practice, that the heel piece can readily be adjusted while the stocking is stretched on the form.

What I claim and desire to protect by Let-` ters Patents is:

l. A hosiery drying apparatus comprising a form body member and a heel member slid able thereon, one of said members being provided with a series of spaced apart recesses, and a spring-pressed device carried by the other member and automatically engageable with any recess opposite to which it is brought in the sliding movement of the heel member.

2. A hosiery drying apparatus comprising a form body member and a heel member, a longitudinally extending ridge on one of said members, the other member having a grooveadapted to said ridge, thus permitting the heel member to engage with and slide longitudinally of the form body member, there being a series of recesses along one member, and a spring-pressed device carried by the other member and adapted to automatically engage different recesses in different slidablyadjusted positions of the heel member.

3. A hosiery drying apparatus and a ridge extending longitudinally thereof, in combination with a heel piece having a groove adapted to said ridge, there being a series of recesses arranged along the face of the ridge, and a spring pressed detent carried by the heel piece and normally projecting above the base of the groove, the detent being depres- Sib-le iush with the base of the groovey to allow the heel piece to slide along the ridge and being projectible by its spring into engagement with any of said recesses when brought opposite thereto.

4. A hosiery drying form having opposite lsubstantially parallel faces and a ridge extending longitudinally of the form along the longitudinal center of one flat face thereof, in combination with a heel piece having a groove adapted to said ridge whereby the heel piece can be engaged with and slid along Ythe form, there being a recess in the base of the groove and a series of recesses arranged along the face of the ridge, and Ya spring pressed detent seated in the heel recess and Hadapted to be projected by its spring into any of the recesses to which it is brought opposite, Wherebythe heel may be moved to any one of a number of diilerent positions and will then be automatically held in such position but be capable, by manual power, of Y being instantly released from such position and quickly readjusted.

In testimony of which invention, I have i hereunto set my hand, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,on this 8th day of December, 1928. Y PAUL GUGGEN HEIM. 

